Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1887 — Page 4

THE JDTDIAltfAPOIiTS JOURNAL. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1587.

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. TUESDAY OCTOBER 4. 1887. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. I. S. &EATH. CorresDondentfEW TOKK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beeltman and Nassau streets. THE INDIANAPOLIS JODKNAL Tan be found at the following places: DON American Exchange in Europe, 449 btraod. PARI? American Exchange In Taris, 35 Boulevard des Capucinea. NEW rORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley Se Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C T. Dearing. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 2T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C Kiggt House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms H2 c , "I am not willing to trnst what interests I have as a citizen and tax payer to each men as Coy and his followers, even if they do carry in their pockets a certificate of good character from Air. English and other reputable citizens. I am free to say I do not like Mr. Coy. I do not like men who are like Mr. Coy. and I have a very poor ooinion ot men who like Coy or bis pang." W. P. Fishback. "I am heartily in favor of every measure that will add to the credit and to the pood name of our city. I am heartily opposed to any measure that will detract from its credit and its good Dame. I believe with ail my heart that the snceees of what is commonl known as the Coy ticket' in the coming election would be a great lhame a treat disgrace, and therefore I am opposed to it." Kev. Dr. McLeod. "I know Dr. Edenharter, and personally like him, but I should be sorry to see him elected Mayor under the existing circumstances, for the Reason that he represents an element which, if it gets control of the city eovernment, will encourage lawlessness on the part of the saloon element, and general demoralization." Gen. T. A. Morris. "Every good decent citizen, irrespective of party ties and affiliations, should join hearts and hands in this contest. The victory should be so great and so marked that no one party cn claim it. It shuuld be so overwhelmingly in favor of law ard order, and decency and virtue, that all good citizens can rejoice in it." Rev. Dr. McLeod. "The same old crowd that i have been BUYING FOE TEAKS." Such were the remarks of Mr. Coy when he looked in upon a gathering of the Knisjhts of Labor, last spring, in the Eighteenth ward. The boys in that ward, on election day, will cause the little boss to think that he made a mistake. lie may have bought up a few leaders with nominations or promises of political swa, but the rank and file never were and never can be bought by the little trickster. The Post (Labor Organ). It is the stuck pig that squeals. "We are glad to hear the gang and the gang's tools howling. The success of the Coy gang in the coming city election 'will bo the worst advertisement Indianapolis could possibly have. ' ' A vote for Edenbarter and the Coy gang is vote to perpetuate the usurpation and domination of the street-car company. The Louisville exposition has "petered out," and is prematurely closed. It takes a gieat many people of one mind to support an exposition. Mrs. Frances E. Willard hrs been elected by the Rock River (Chicago) Conference as a lay delegate to the Methodist General Conference. Every property owner and business man, every house owner and workingman, interested In the welfare of the city should assist in defeating the Coy gang. The offer of $100 reward for evidence establishing the purchase or sale of votes in the city election ought to induce a pretty sharp look-out in certain quarters. PERHAPS if it were to do over again the Democrats would not be so anxious to have the President stop here. The harvest does not seem to have been at all what was expected. GEORGIA papers are boasting that Jeff Davis is to review the ex-Confederate troops at Macon. That's nothing. President Cleveland is to review a gang of them up in Chicago. Let them boast about that. Perhaps Senator Van Voorhees thought that by claiming descent from an old Knickerbocker family he might win the favor of the President and capture a share of the appointments which are now going to New i York. Banana J ANXIOUS friends of Mr. Edenharter are now explaining that Coy supports the party nominee not through self interest, but from principle. It's all the same. If Edenharter is elected he will pay the interest at usurious rates. TnEF.E was a great display of red, white and blue muslin in the decorations on Saturday, but a dearth of regulation flags, probably because the owners feared that Cleveland would order them to be taken down or turned over to the rebels. THE President complimented the Indiana Senator on being "a Tall Sycamore," but made no reference to the old Knickerbocker Van Voorhees family from which he claims descent. Mr. Cleveland hadn't learned of this change of name before writing his Terre Haute speech in Washington. The statement made by a son of Senator Van Voorhees that his father is bitterly opposed to President Cleveland, calls forth the explanation from "friends of the family" that the talkative son is a weak-minded youth. It was indiscreet, not to say foolish, to give the old man away in that manner. . ..." w ' ' Hon. James Travis, member of the Tennesseo Legislature, nephew of Indian Commissioner Atkins, and connected with the Indian agency at Gunnison, Colo., is now in Tennessee. He says there has been no Indiar war in Colorado. The trouble all grew out of some horse races between the Indians and the cowboys, the latter refusing to pay their looses. Following this there were some , threatening demonstrations, but no fighting, la fact, Colorow and his hand never went of

the reservation. Mr. Travis says there was a surprising amount of able lying done by correspondents and others. Old Colorow seems to be of the same opinion, for in a talk with Mr. Travis just before the latter left Colorado be said, "any one my men kill deer 200 yards; won't miss a man thirty yards; all got Winchesters. No Indians have been killed that I know of. White man big liar." Colorow should qualify this sweeping accusation by saying some white men are big liars. 55 The date of the City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. " T0TJK INTEREST IN THE ELECTION. The result of the city election, to be held one week from to-day, depends entirely upon the action or non-action, of the property owners, tax-payers, home ownem and orderly citizens of Indianapolis. If they wake up to the fact that there is to be an election, in which is involved the prosperity of the city, its good government, an economical administration of its affairs, the enforcement of its laws and the building up and growth of the city, then the ticket that represents these things will be elected. Every saloon bummer, tramp and dead beat about town knows when the election is to be held. Every fellow who markets his vote for a price, every fellow who reckons the sale of his vote as a part of his income, is awake to the fact that the election is impending. The election to that class is the next event in the future, which they await anxiously and hopefully. The Coy gang and the saloon element propose to buy this class, and in the reliance they place upon its purchase is their hope for success. A "still hunt" is not going to secure this element. They are as wide awake as weasels. All this element has at stake is wide-open saloons and whatever they can get for their vote. No tax duplicate holds their names, and high taxes have no terror in store for them. The Coy gang look to the certainty of this bummer vote for them and to the indifference and apathy of those who, voting, would certainly vote against them. The property owners should look to their own interest in dollars and cents, even should they have no other sentiment. A day gi en next Tuesday at the polls in voting and bringing out lawful votes will be worth five days' wages at least in the saving of taxes to every day laborer paying taxes on a home worth $1,000. The pecuniary interest of every housa owner or tax-payer demands the defeat of the Coy gang. The data of the City Election is Tuesday, Oct. 11. mammmmmmmmm SHALL THE! BUTE THE CITY? A few weeks ago two young men of Logansport, sons of respectable parents, went into a saloon to drink, got into a quarrel with the bartender and were both shot and killed. Scarcely a month ago a young man in. Ejansville, employed in the internal revenue office, was discovered to be a defaulter in a large sura, which his father had to make good, ruining him financially. The young man is now a fugitive. Whisky and whisky associations eaused his downfall. In New Albany, on Saturday last, the son of a well-known druggist negotiated in bank two notes on which he had forged his father's name, and has since fled to Canada. Whisky was at the bottom of his crime. These are every day occurences. Similar events are happening in other towns and somewhere almost every day. There i3 a steady procession of young men going to ruin by the whisky route. In the city of Indianapolis hundreds of youths, many of them minors, sons of respectable parents and representatives of our "best families," can be found many and many a night in the saloons where liquor is sold to minors in violation of law. Reader, your son may be of the number, Do you know where he was last night, or any other night when he was out late? Yoa had better inquire. Ten chances to one he was going with a gay party of youths of his own age from one hole to another exchanging nods and smiles with the white'aproned bartender who sold him liquor after 11 o'clock at night sold liquor to your boy not yet out of his teens. Is not 11 o'clock at night late enough for this sort of business? Must it be carried on on Sundays also? And shall the gang who are thus engaged in corrupting and murdering the youth of the land, varying their nefarious occupation with tally-6heet forging and other crimes, be permitted to possess themselves of the government of this city? It is for the people to say. The date or the City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. "WILL IT MAKE THE CITT PE0SPEE0US? It is characteristic of the present attitude of the Coy gang tbat no argument can be made in favor of their success that does not convey a suggestion for the violation of law. Thus the gang organ quotes approvingly from I another paper the following: 'Indianapolis is not a cross-road village, to be governed by , straight laced notions of 'one idead' statesmen, hut a metropolis, demanding the treatment of a metropolis and such an administration of its affairs as will invite instead of driving away that encouragement for its material development so necessary to its continued prosperity. And it is for this reason, and this reason only, that our best judgment urges us to assist in electing Dr. Edenharter." This is the best argument that can be made for Coy's candidate. The assumption is tbat the way to make a city great and prosperous is to remove all restrictions from the liquor traffic and turn the government over to the bummer element. The characteristics of "a metropolis," we are told, are that the laws shall be openly violated, and things run on the "wide open" plan for the benefit and behoof of tally-Bheet forgers, saloon-keepers and the criminal classes generally. We had supposed that the prosperity of a city depended on good government, the enforcement of law and order, low taxes, and such conditions as . will attract capital, labor and enterprise from abroad. But the supporters of the Coy gang think differently. Wo are told the city needs "such an administration of affairs as will invite instead of driving away that encouragement for its material development so necessary for its continued prosperity." How much capital or industry would be invited here by doubling the number of doggeries, or by allowing them to sell all night and Sundays? Ia what way would the "material development" of tho city be assisted by the open vio

lation of law and the establishment of a policy which all experience proves would cause an increase of pauperism and crime? Yet "for this reason, and this reason only," says the organ of the gang, "our Best judgment urges ns to assist in electing Dr. Edenharter." And we say, for these very reasons the best Judgment of every voter who has a spark of manhood or self-respect in him should nrge him to assist in defeating Dr. Edenharter. The ex-confederate association of Chicago has unanimously decided to participate in the escort tendered President Cleveland on Wednesday next. They will turn out 150 men. Current Dispatch. Of course they will, and it is eminently proper they should. The large majority of Mr. Cleveland's official associates are ex-confederates. The majority of the Democratic members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, on whose advice Mr. Cleveland acts, are ex-con federate soldiers and officers, most of them general or field officers. The majority of Mr. Cleveland's appointments to Department offices in Washington are ex-confederates. The large majority of the electoral votes cast for Mr. Cleveland were cast by ex-confederates. For every Union soldier Mr. Cleveland has appointed to office since he has been President, he has appointed two ex-confederate soldiers. The majority of the Ministers and the more important officers sent abroad by Mr. Cleveland to represent the Union the United States in foreign court- are ex-confederates, men who fought during the rebellion to break up and destroy the government. Of course the ex-confederates should turn out to escort Mr. Cleveland why not? He is specially their President. Without the aid and votes of rebels an & ex-rebels he would not now be President, and traveling around the country for renomination and "conquest." The ex-confederates make a fitting escort. The date of the City Klectlon Is Tuesday Oct 11. Were Horace Greeley's remarkable speeches prepared in advance in New York and put into type at the Tribune office? Were Gen. Garfield's speeches elaborately prepared at Mentor, and put into print? These matchless performances were "off hand" in delivery, but they showed the brain power, the learning and the trained minds of their makers. Yet, in an excuse or apology for Mr. Cleveland's plan of beating out dull platitudes and wasting midnight oil over childish twaddle, such as he uttered in Indianapolis, an esteemed contemporary essays an implied comparison with the brilliant speeches of Tom Marshall! The country has never listened to such stupid stuff as President Cleveland has thus far given on his tour which, according to Mr. Speaker Carlisle, was to mean "conquest," Our literature, it seems, is to be permanently enriched by the carefully-recorded observations made by President Cleveland and his wife during their journey through the West. One of Mrs. Cleveland's remarks can not fail to go down to posterity, not so much for its own value as for a proof of her great . sagacity. Speaking of the crowds at the stations, she said: "Isn't it wonderful how, living so far from the busy centers, they find exactly when the trains are due!" The President then opened his mouth and uttered these burning words: "These people deserve a great deal of consideration. They rarely have a chance to see a President." No city election in Indianapolis has ever attracted as much attention throughout the State as the coming one, and the universal hope among these who have the welfare and good name of the city at heart is that the Coy . gang may be defeated. In fact, residents of neighboring towns and cities are at a loss to understand how there can be any doubt about the result. At a little distance from the scene of the contest, and looking at the matter dispassionately, they are able to see very clearly the dangerous results involved and the damage and disgrace the city would suffer from the success of the gang. The fact that Colonel Johnson removed the transfer-car during the parade on Saturday, is an acknowledgement that it ia an obstruction to the street and to the .free use thereof. No sooner, however, had his "nibs" passed, than the Colonel again located the monstrosity; probably he feared an injunction unless he made haste. The car was in the way of glorifying the advent of a Democratic President, but the people in daily need of the street have no rights that the street-railroad magnates care to respect. Mr. C. P. Huntington, who is at present vainly trying to recall to his mind some most important details connected with the Central Pacific railroad management, is earnestly recommended to try the new memory system. The fee for private instruction is twenty dollars, but if he gets up a club, which he can easily do among his associate directors, the expense can be materially lessened may, indeed, be brought as low as five dollars for the whole course. Governor Gray gave his welcome address to the President as much of a partisan flavor as he could without making it openly so. He began by addressing himself to "President Cleveland" instead of Mr. President, which is the recognized official title of the President. The latter in his reply did not say "Governor Gray," but simply Governor. The personal address of the Governor was inappropriate, the impersonal one of the President was correct. The Cincinnati Enquirer's Indianapolis special says: "This is the day after, and it is that in almost every sense of the word. Indianapolis had a blow-out, a regular jamboree, yesterday and last night, and sick-headaches, spoiled breaths and everything consequent to such affairs to-day trouble the rising generation of this city. Also, some of the generation which is not rising, but which has risen." Considerable feeling is reported to exist' in certain Democratic circles over the fact that President Cleveland was allowed to hobnob only with the kid-glove element while

here, and was not permitted so much as to put his nose inside the sample-rooms of that eminent Democrat, Sim Coy. It does seem as though undue discrimination was used. It might have reminded him of Buffalo; and besides, it should not have been forgotten that Mr. Coy wields more influence just now in the Democratic party than even Senator McDonald. j The friends of Dr. Edenharter are trying to create the impression that he is not . Coy's candidate for Mayor. The Doctor will not say that if he lived in Coy's ward he wuld not vote for him for councilman, nor that if Coy was candidate for Mayor he would not vote for him for that office. If the Doctor is not Coy's candidate, let him deny that he would bo vote.

The open repudiation of corrupt ring methods by the respectable Democrats of Maryland i s proof that members of that party can be independent in politics when the occasion requires. The emergency has arisen in Indianapolis, and the man who puts the party yoke aside and votes against the Coy element and a reign of rascality can be sure that he is doing his duty. . . Dr. Joseph Parker's evening sermon in Plymouth Church was of a more popular character and contained more taking points than his morning sermon. In discussing the preacher it was unanimously agreed that he was a man of remarkable power, a striking speaker, of clear and rapid thought, but not a Beecher. He is evidently a different type of preacher. ' The Hendricks Club feels that it has been snubbed. They shouldn't take the matter to heart, It was probably unintentional. If the President had realized that it was the Hendricks Club, and not a common lot of hungry Democrats, who were in hollow square around him, he would undoubtedly have requested the honor of an introduction. The City Council has nerve lots of it. The trouble is its nerves are irregularly distributed. They are puckered up in a regular ganglion on the question of putting an expensive pavement down on Washington street over the protest of the property-owners; but when it comes to reaching out after the streetcar company, they don't seem to get there. . The latest way of putting it in the gang organs is this: Boss Coy works for Edenharter not because he favors him personally, but because he is the party nominee. And then the organ forgets to add that there wers so few men in "these politics" when Edenharter was chosen that the noble Democratic party was personified by Coy himself. The Journal has heard upon what it believes good authority, that Dr. Edenharter boasted in a saloon in Dayton, O., at the time of the meeting of the Knights of Pythias in that city, that if he was elected Mayor of the 1 city of Indianapolis, he would throw the city I wide open to the saloons. Does the Doctor deny that he so said? . L TTnv.vrTATiTKR i fortunate in bavinc Sim -Coy's ' support, for he, above All . others, can get out the Democratic vote, and that is what the party wants. Interview in Sentinel. A party . has fallen pretty low when it is frankly admitted that a man like Sim Coy can, "above all others," get out its vote. The date of the City Election is Tuesday, Oct. 11. , The Louisville Commercial publishes "a unique and exhaustive epitaph from a tombstone in Tennessee," which says the cnbject of it was "born at the now city of Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 13. 1814." This is too unique. The now city of Indianapolis was not located till 1820, and there was no white settler here in 1814. Able romancers who construct epitaphs should try and make them consist A citizen of Detroit, who has lived a lawabiding. God-fearing life for many years, has just made the discovery that he is an Italian nobleman in disguise. Probably his first impulse after learning the facts was to go out and buy a hand;organ. Terre Haute people are still inclined to grumble because the presidential party did not get there by daylight So far as the President himself is concerned, the Journal hastens to assure them that they lost nothing. He looks batter in the dark. The date of the City Election Is Tuesday, Oct. 11. COMMENT AND OPINION. The sort of a railroad enterprise the people want is that which will enable them to travel in the greatest possible safety. After this tbey will accept the luxuries of travel as fast as the railroads care to supply them. But safety is the first thing to be thought of. The car-stove is a constant menace to the passenger. Atlanta Constitution. If the Republican party is right, barriers against foreign competition, with free land for every industrious settler, do more to uplift the condition of the worker, more to insnre bis independence, more to discharge the duty of the state to its laboring citizens, than can be done by all the theories of Mr. George and his associates. New York Tribune. It seems at this distance as if one court and one judge in New York is created for the purpose of interfering with the decrees of the others. One judge sentences Sharp and another grants a stay. One court affirms bis sentence and the judge of another interposes bis stay. Thus it seems tbat the judicial system of New York was designed to prevent the speedy punishment of offenders. Boston Jonrnal. . Great Britain is a bully in Japan, keeping the peonle poor and the eovernment with a wholly inadequate revenue, in order to poor npon them English goods. If Japan shows the least sign of asserting independence the British minister sends for a man-of-war.. The French and German ministers, and now the Spanish, are almost as dictatorial, but England's attitude towards Janan is decidedly "protectorate" and crushing. Hartford Courant. The great and important step to be taken, though, is that suggested by Secretary Lamar. Be wants the tribal relation broken up. Under tbat relation the Indian is "a w.rd" of the nation, 6et apart from the rest of uy with legislative permission and even encouragement to remain a savage. If that relation is broken up he takes his one hundred and sixty acres of our domain and becomes a farmer, or goes to school, to college or into business and practically becomes an American citizen, and eats ready to avail himself ot all the privileges which tbat citizenship bestows. New York Herald. Eloquence, readiness, experience, . presence of mind, and ample knowledge of men and affairs could not save Mr. Blaine from the deadly volley of a crank's mouth. Out of his own he could not have been convicted. Perhaps at this very moment some painfel, conscientious person in Missouri or Iowa may be working upon an address which will prove a Burchard. triplet to the President Perhaps in an ungarded moment the tourist himself may hastily and innocently offend. We mention these tbincs to show what a weight of care must accompany a candidate on wheels. If Mr. Cleveland has taet and good fortune be may escape the pitfalls and perils that await him; but there is no disguising the fact that his Western path craves wary walking. Speech is silvern, and a great deal of bad silver ots into circulation. New York Sun.

HOW THE GANG OPERATES

Public Disclosures of Their Methods of Work at the Last Two Elections. Record of the Unscrupulous and Disreputable Political Schemers Who Are Trying to Get Full Control of the City Government. . ' N-r Edenharter Says the Union Party Does Xot Represent Workingmen. He Also Defends the Coy Ganjr in a Speech to Residents of the Eighth Ward Talk About Local Politics. The gang that nominated Dr. Edenharter for Mayor, and two hours after the death of Mr. Shields, the candidate for city clerk, named Mike O'Donnell for that vacancy on the ticket, is the same that two years aco manifested its spirit of lawlessness in an outrage on the ballotbox. Then, as now, Sim Coy and John K' Sullivan directed the city campaign, with Cottrell as candidate for Mayor solely in behalf of the Liquor League. He was defeated by over sixty votes, but the narrow margin suggested to the gang bosses the counting-out process. W. L Ripley then, as now, was a gang candidate for alderman. James A. Pritchard defeated him fairly by nine votes. Here again the small majority offered another chance for counting out, as thereby Coy would be able to have a majority of one in the board. The recount began with Coy at the front in the interest of his lawless element Albert F. Ayres, who, tor a short time, usurped the office of criminal judge last fall on the strength of the tally-sheet forgeries, and Sterling licit, who for a few weeks at the beginning of this year, was police commissioner, a place he obtained on the demand of Coy and Sullivan, were the majority of the recounting board. From first to last they submitted to the dictation of Coy, and overruled protest after protest offered by tbe Republican commissioner, Charles A. Dryer. Coy, by his unfair methods, reduced Pritchard's majority from nine to on 3. He made a mistake, it is said, in his calculation and manipulation of the ballots. He expected to give Ripley a majority of two. Not to be outdone, he insisted on having another recount, and Ayres atfd Holt coinciaed with him. The Republican commissioner. Dryer, who had the key to the ballot-box needed for they proposed to take particular wards for further manipulation refused to surrender it Tbe ballots in sealed bags bad been replaced in all the boxes after they were recounted the first time. Coy and Sullivan, failing to get tbe keys, before daybreak on the 27th of October, 1SS5, went to Judge Ayres, .under whose orders the recount was held, and on a misrepresentation secured wbat they claimed to be an order for the second recount of the aldermanio votes. Dryer still refused, at which Sullivan, who, on his own demand, displaced one of the watchers first appointedThomas O'Neil, now in his employ went into tbe judges' private room and found a hatchet. This he handed to Holt, who, rushing to the ballot-box of the First precinct. Third ward, upon which Mr. Dryer sat pushed him off, and in a moment bad the top splintered. In another moment the ballots from that pre-inct were scattered pell-mell upon the table, with Coy and Sullivan busily mixing them up. The people were outraged, the honest watchers protested, and a riot seemed imminent For this the gang was prepared, for the corridors at the time were crowded by tbe worst-looking cutthroats that ever disgraced a city. County Clerk McLain, who was keeping the tallies, threatened to appeal to Judge Ayres, when Coy insolently said, "Oh, Ayers; bee one of our kind!" The illegal recount proceeded, and Ripley was given a majority of two; but the Republican claim of a majority of one was bus-' tained by the courts. This dastardly act moved Mr. Dryer to send in bis resignation as one of the recounting commissioners. In bis letter to Judge Ayres he said: "The bursting open of ballot boxes sealed and locked a agreed upon by the commissioners, and as law required, after a count bad been made thereof, for the reason, without question, in my opinion, that a favorite candidate had not received a sufficiently high vote to elect him, seems so dastardly and outrageous upon the rights of tbe people and in defiance of law that I do not longer feel it to be my duty to act with the commission, who seem to be moved regardless of law or justice to obtain their partisan ends. I might go further and speak of the annoyance to the commissioners by outsiders in attempting to count the ballots, and of the submissive manner in which the majority of the commissioners have accepted tbe dictation of some of tbe watchers." Tbe resignation was not accepted, but Coy and Sullivan, with the effrontery, injustice and desperation of political bandits, pursned the same methods in the recount in the votes for Mayor. By triekerv the majority for Denny was reduced from sixty to nine. This was the first bold attempt of the gang to usurp power regardless of the rights of the people, decency and law. It is in elections and handling returns where tbe gang bosses, Coy and Sullivan, show their political lawlessuess. Both have been tried once and are still under indictment for conspiracy in securing the forging of tally-sheets last fall. In the conspiracy trial, in July last, Samuel E. Perkins testified that after he procured, at the instigation of Coy, tbe election papers from Alien Hisey, of the Second precinct of the Thirteenth ward, be went back to Coy. "I went with him," continued Mr. Perkins, "east in the hall to a room at the east end of the building. Mr. Coy Vok from his pocket a key, opened the door and 1 went in with him. When we got in there, be said the candidate for criminal judge was about eighty votes behind, and desired me to make a change. He said he thought that precinctcould stand a change of sixteen votes each way, and asked me to take a knife and erase tallies from Judge Irvin and place them on those of Judge Ayrr-s. He furnished me a knife and I changed the sheets, taking from Irvin sixteen votes and adding them to the vote for Ayres. When I first begun he stood and leaned over the table, . watching what I was doing. Before I concluded he went out of the room. He came back again by himself. A few moments after Coy went out somebody tried the door. It was John Reardon, who brought in a man named Flynn. He went over and sat down by the window, and began reading a Daper. " In regard to the papers of Mattler. Mr. Perkins said either Mattler or Coy gave them to him to make a change, and that he changed it on criminal judge, either twenty-five or thirty votes." In rehearsing the incidents of the morning of the canvass of the returns, Mr. Perkins said: 'I did nothing with any other myself than these two. I went over to the Court-house in the morning and met Mr. Hisey standing upon the steps, waiting with his returns sealed up in the bag. He went in with me to the county clerk and he receipted for them and filed them away. Hisey then went up stairs. A short time after that the board of canvassers was organized. Mr. Hisey did not have the outside papers. They had been taken away by the judge two nights before, so I went to one or two gentlemen and finally to Mr. Landers. Tbe returns from Mr. Landers's ward were in the same condition as ours. I asked him to make a motion that the bags be sent for in precinets where there were no outside papers. He made the motion. When he made it Spaan came to me and said. 'What in b 1 are yon doing, to make that motion? How are we to ose these altered tally-papers if the bags are used That was all there was of that motion. The next transaction I related here before. Mr. Coy stated to me they were behind with the candidate for criminal judge and asked me if I could get tbe tally-papers from my precinct and help them ont. I went to Mr. Hisey. got the papers and took them to the room with Mr. Coy. After Mr. Mattler came in. Mr. Smith Myera came in. Then in the next two or three minutes Mr. Daniel Burton came in. He walked up and down the room two or three times and said, 'My Goo, this is no place for me, and went ont When I went out 1 left Smith Mvers and Coy in the room. I went to the canvassing room. On the wav Mr. Beck came up with a tally-sheet under bis coat He asked me to take it and alter it I said that he wa. as able as I and tbat I bad done mv share. 1 had Mr. Cov's knife and gave it to Mr. Beck, and he went into Mr. Coy's room. Coy came back to me after a while and said Mattler had become frightened. I asked him why. and Coy said because tbe certificate was not changed to correspond with the tallysheet, and tbe ink was not of the same color. Coy said he would go down to the Grand Hotel

and get Mr. Reardon to get in It from the same parties who furnished the ink for the election boards. I met Dr. Metcalf on the steps of the Court house. I asked if he knew of any acid.

He said he would go and see. I went down to his office with him. He had some acid. He took 9 match and tried some of it on an envelope, and it seemed to work pretty well. We then started up the street together, and I told Metcalf that Coy was at bis room in the Grand Hotel. Metcalf left me at the corner of Illinois street, and I went to tbe Court-house. After that I went to the Grand Hotel. Coy was in his room with his feet up on the table, and said be was ready for business. While there Rardon came in with a bottle of ink. I went back to the Court-house a few moments, and went home to supper. During the time we were in this room Coy stated there wa $500 in it to the Liquor, League and we might as well have it I have bad very little conversation with Henry Spaan in regard to the fund to be used in influencing the grand jury of this court After the invsti- ' gation before Commissioner Van Buren, Spaan left a note on my table for me at my office to come ' to his office at once. 1 went down and be took me into a back room. He said be wanted some money and wanted it bad wanted $50 at once. I did not have it then. After dinner he was at my office and 1 gave it to him. After I bad my litigation in the United States Court and went to jail. I asked Henrv. if be didn't think tbey ougnt to pay my expenses. He said they bad raised $1,400, and had unusual expenses that they bad to influence men down in the country districts at their homes." Returning to the morning the votes were canvassed. Perkins said: ' "While I was sitting in the canvassing room. Dr. Metcalf came to me and asked if the Foerth ward was in. I said, No.' He said. It will be a dandy when it comes.' John E. Sullivan, during the canvass, asked me to get the returns from the upper precinct in my ward. I asked j bim if be hadn't enough. He said 'yes, but he wanted to get some for bis friends." The men to whom Mr. Perkins chiefly refers are tbe backers of Edenharter and O'DonnelL Phases of the Campaign. Hiram Miller, the ex-county treasurer who was the inspector of Wayne township at the election last November, said yesterday: 'I was approached by a man whom I could name to take my returns to a certain place. I was not to be caught that way. From the day of the -election until I delivered them to the canvassing board at 2:40 o'clock Friday morning they were never ont of my possession. Had all the inspectors taken the same care with their returns there would have been no trouble.'' Not many days ago Sam Dinnin, it is said, made this speech to the Democratic Executive Committee, ."Now you fellers-have promised to help us take care of men in my ward. After to morrow they won't be able to get a residence there. If you don't send men to us and give us the money to keep them we are beat'' The committee, it is said, promised bim $500. Candidate Edenharter addressed a gathering of about one hundred persons, at tbe corner of Noble and Michigan streets, last evening. He defended the Coy gang by declaring that "they were angels compared with the Renublican gang in Indianapolis, including even the gospel gang at Pfafilin's Hail the other night," and in referring to the Union Labor ticket, he asserted tbat the candidates and members of tb party were not true representatives of the working class, and advised laboring men "to not be deceived by them." His speech throughout was characterized by an utter disregard for truth, . and the worst kind of demagogy. Dr. Brennan's zeal in helping the Coy gang, by seeking to control the votes of the male patients in the hospital of tbe Little Sisters of the Poor has eaused a great deal of unfavorable comment among Republicans and others who contribute to tbe support of tbe institution. Many, if not all their patients nave no residence in the ward in which it is proposed to have them ' vote for Democratic candidates, hence the zealous doctor is making himself liable to pr sedition. Tbe Doctor'- alleged purpose was criticized yesterday by business men with any thing but friendly feeling toward the institution. " .. MINOR ROUTINE BUSINESS ONLY. The Council Approves Appointments of Several New Election Officers Other Matters. The noticeable absentees from the meeting of the Council last night were Sim Coy and 'his candidate for Mayor, but so many more members remained away tbat at roll call there was barely a quorum. Nor was there a disposition among those present to do anything outside of routine business, confined to repotts. estimates and the introduction of motions to repair crossings, place fire plugs and extend water mains. In some of the precincts there were vacancies as to inspectors and judges of election to filL Some were appointed, but Conncilmen Stuckmeyer and Smith said tbey bad no names to suggest for existing vacancies in their boards or election officers in their wards. They thought the needed officers could be named by the by standers on the morning of the election. Councilman Smithers, though, wanted tbe Council to approve his selections for an inspector and judge in the second precinct of the Fourth ward. "Abel Dvis had declined to serve as inspector, and G. W. Walker would not act as judge. Amos Clifford was appointed in place of Davis, and Thomas M. Stewart to serve as judge instead of Walker. Councilman McGroarty bad Al Patterson appointed a3 j ad ere for the second precinct of the Sixteenth ward in place of Wa Gulliver. who had declined the position. Councilman Heris's nomination of R. H. Stout to serve as judge in tbe first precinct of the Twenty-nfth ward, instead of Morris Mack, who had refused to act, was approved. Councilman Stuckmeyer, in refusing to name anyone for the vacant inspectorship in one of his precincts, was desirous of knowing whether a vacancy could be filled by the Council. It was his opinion that the bystanders ought to do it, but the Mayor told bim the Council could legally supply the vacancies. "If you have anybody for an inspector, Mr. Stuckmeyer," the Mayor continued, "You might name him." "I have no one in mind just now, Mr. Mayor, replied, tbe Councilman. The committee on streets and alleys reported that it had considered the request of the Union Railway Company to improve at their own expense the streets around the Union Depot, and recommended tbat it be granted. The report was approved. Councilman Burns sent up a petition from property-owners on Vermont street, asmng the Council to allow the Citizens' Street Railway Company to extend its tracks out that street to Haughville. ' This is the sequel to tbe action of the Board of Aldermen and Council in - modifying the original ordinance of the latter body in permitting tbe company to go out Michigan street Instead of granting a privilege along it, the modification chopped off tbe proposed Haughville. route at that street Councilman Burns, who it an employe of Colonel Johnson, asked to have the petition referred to the committee on railroads with instructions to report at the next meeting. Councilman Haueh seemed desirous to keep the petition away for a time from the committee, ot which be is a member. He suggested that pending litigation in the form of injanctiou proceedings would interfere with its early consideration, but Councilman Burns wanted the petition referred, and so it went to the committee with tbe understanding tbat if it could not report at the next meeting, it could have further time. An ordinance amending the natural gas ordinance in accordance with tbe request to tbat effect from Mr. Doxey was introduced. It was referred to the special committee having that matter in charge. Tbe amendments allow the Anderson Natural-gas Company to keep its principal office in Anderson and a branch office here, and to furnish meters on application of the consumers "at actual cost without profit." instead of requiring the company to furnish them gratuitously. A further amendment provides that the tax of 3 cents per foot on the mains after tbe expiration office five years shall apply to those laid within the district bounded by East, West. North and South streets. Another is to the effect that tbe company accepting the ordinance shall exercise no rights under it until it has laid five miles of pipe from a gas producing region towards the city. The ordinance now requires tbe pipes to be laid to the city limits before mains within the city can be put down. It Would Advantage tbe Democratic Party. Indianapolis News. The local Democracy could not have a greater service done it than for Coy i am to be hit so hard in the coming election as to knock its unolean grasp loose from the Democratic machinery and give good citizenship a chance. The Whole State Interested. Madison '"onrier. J The whole State is interested in the approaching municipal election in Indianapolis. It is a contest between decency and indecency, law and lawlessness, justice and injustice, right and wrong.